Road Tax gone up again !
 

the crafty robbing gits :mad:

most annoyingly again the 2017-on cars have now increaced from £140 to £180

old V10 S8 etc £695

i can feel an MGBGT coming on (maybe not)

:tuttut::tuttut::tuttut:

My S8 was £360

I drive about 12000 miles a year:

• In two of my four cars I do about 500 miles a year and that costs me over over £500 a year in tax (i.e. more than a pound a mile - before fuel costs) and
  
• I do over 95% of the rest of the 12000 miles in one of the other two, and that costs me nothing in tax (or fuel...)
  

Great tax system...:rolleyes:

£395 now for a D2

Drop in the ocean compared to buying, depreciation, maintaining and insuring, who cares :tuttut:

Talking of insuring, just had my renewal, increase is about 35%. I'll bet that is down to claiming for a new windscreen last year. :tuttut:
Anyone know what a D2 (non-heated) windscreen costs to replace?

My renewal for the RS6 was 46% up on last year, bit strange as I've had no claims. Managed to get it for less than last years cost though. As Sarg says VED is a very small cost of running a car TBH

Not really:

1. Buying isn't relevant, as that's capital expenditure, not an annual operating cost (which VED is),
   
2. Annual insurance (for me, anyway, for all my cars subject to tax) is less than the VED
   
3. Depreciation? What depreciation? All 3 of my cars that are subject to VED seem to be appreciating in value, including my S8

So I care, and I'm probably not the only one.

The Tax system needs reviewing but Government takes things slowly & road taxing wouldn’t be popular and could be unfair too (eg small, efficient petrol car does school run etc in a rural area racks up the miles).
I live in London and do 3K miles a year and I’m looking at buying an S8 and a two seater, about £1K in VED feels a lot.
Or Historic Vehicle exempt is now up to 1982!

Does your insurance not have windscreen cover, whereby you only pay a small fee around £65, and it doesn't affect your premium? I had the rear window on the S8 replaced and the renewal price didn't increase.

In terms of costs of screens, over £500 just for the glass. Over £700 for the heated versions.

It does not affect NCD but you still need to declare as claim for the following years, insurers does not say it openly but I strongly suspect it does raise premiums, why else would they be asking to declare. If it's expensive screen it's worth doing on insurance even if premium increase a bit. I had it done for Tesla as it would have been £1k. But for some older/ more common cars you can get aftermarket screen supplied and fitted by independent fitters for £140 or pay £85-100 excess to insurance company and likely also to get increase in insurance premium.

It does indeed, and that is the theory so I only paid the (small) excess, but I just don't trust them (Privilege)! :tuttut:

Interestingly I had the windscreen replaced on my Volvo during the early days of lockdown, which turned out to be rather a logistical nightmare as it had to go away to a specialist to have the cameras etc. recalibrated as part of the job. Full fat job; heated windscreen and lots of cameras and sensors up near the mirror.
But that cost me absolutely nothing! The windscreen excess is a sweet fat zero on that policy (Aviva) and it didn't go up at all, in fact reduced on renewal. :cool:

It actually shows as a claim on my renewal paperwork; I arranged the work via my insurers so they are fully aware.

Nothing shows on the Volvo policy though, again all arranged via the insurers. :Confused:

I had to pay Bulgarian Leva 950 this year. That's 475 Euro or about 400 Quid.

My S8 soldiers on.

My VED which is due at the start of October will now be £405! That's up about 10% on last year, and seems to fall into the same group as the S8 in terms of CO2, yet mine runs on LPG which I'm supposed to get a 'discount' of £10 on.

Just be glad ye aren't in the Republic of Ireland.

It's €2,400 a year to tax my 4.2 tdi Q7. :mad:

Well, your country has gone a bit potty!